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Darren Chenery wrote:
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</style>Since I'm a total newbie to linux and after installing fedora
I got an alert to say that there were updates available, so I clicked
on whatever it was (I forget now) to proceed with the update
procedure. <br>
<br>
After it had all gone through, it said that a reboot was needed, but on
rebooting, my system seemed to have frozen and the last bit of text on
the screen was "GRUB", the hard disc access light was on, not
flickering, but on constantly. <br>
<br>
I have 3 physical hard drives the first two have windows partitions and
the third is only for linux. I have had to reinstall windows, since
trying to reinstall fedora, had no effect on remedying the system
freeze. <br>
<br>
Do any of you know how, in the future (when I reinstall linux again) to
correct the problem should it occur again?<br>
<br>
Darren <br>
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<a href="mailto:enigma_blackbird@hotmail.com">enigma_blackbird@hotmail.com</a><br>
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Did you get a GRUB ERROR: 3 or similar?<br>
<br>
A couple of points: You dont need to reinstall windows or linux. To
install the windows bootloader again just inset the cd, log into the
windows installation (usually #1) and type 'fixmbr'. That will put the
windows NTLDR (windows NT loader) back in the master boot record.<br>
<br>
You also dont need to reinstall any of you linuxes (sp?) either. Just
grab a live cd from any distro (the gentoo minimal is good because it
is only 60mb). boot up off the cd and type (as root) chroot
/dev/<disk/partition> disk/partition being the root partition of
where your linux distro is. <br>
<br>
Gentoo-wiki goes through it very throughly but here are the main ones
for you:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Quick_GRUB">http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Quick_GRUB</a> - A quick version, probably the
best for you<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_boot">http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_boot</a> - A good one for you to read<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Boot_from_Windows_Bootloader_(NTLDR">http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Boot_from_Windows_Bootloader_(NTLDR</a>)_and_why
- How to dual boot using NTLDR, not really for you but fun to read
nonetheless.<br>
<br>
Ubuntu's forums say how to recover your system from a MBR problem also:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ozzu.com/ftopic47272.html">http://www.ozzu.com/ftopic47272.html</a> is a bit for fedora.<br>
<br>
Grub also do a recovery disk somewhere but i cant find it<br>
<br>
If you tell me what disk and partition your linux is on i can tell you
the exact commands to use.<br>
<br>
George<br>
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